{"id":11441,"date":"2023-01-27T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2023-01-27T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:17:03","slug":"osun-state-election-petition-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11441","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal Sacks Ademola Adeleke As Osun State Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The election petition tribunal sitting in Osun has declared Mr Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the Saturday, 16 July, 2021 gubernatorial\u00a0 election held in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the ruling delivered on Friday, 27 January, 2023, the Tribunal ruled in favour of Oyetola having established cases of over voting in some of the polling units in the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tribunal chaired by Justice Tertese Kume held that indeed there was over voting in 749 polling units during the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tribunal having deducted the unlawful votes from the lawful votes, ruled that Oyetola indeed has the majority of the lawful votes cast during the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It thus, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Ademola Adeleke of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) and handed it over to Oyetola.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election petition tribunal sitting in Osun has declared Mr Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the Saturday, 16 July, 2021 gubernatorial  election held in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[111,2329,455,110],"class_list":["post-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-election-tribunal","tag-osun-state","tag-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11443,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions\/11443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}